The Origins and Establishment of the Australian Council for International Development

In Canberra, where the Australian Council for International Development is located, whole suburbs are devoted to industry associations and peak bodies there to capture the ear of government. It is often assumed that these industry peak bodies’ own members drove the process of coming together to advo...

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1. Verfasser:	Kilby, Patrick
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
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Zusammenfassung:	In Canberra, where the Australian Council for International Development is located, whole suburbs are devoted to industry associations and peak bodies there to capture the ear of government. It is often assumed that these industry peak bodies’ own members drove the process of coming together to advocate for their cause. The case of ACFID is quite different: it was a determined individual, Sir John ‘Jack’ Crawford, a former public servant with no NGO connections, who brought a disparate group of Australian development NGOs together into a single council in the mid-1960s. Without him there may not have been a single